“The two girls who could move their hair without any wind machines were Linda Evangelista and Yasmin Le Bon. They were legendary for the ability to shake their hair even slightly and it could fill two pages.”
Nick Knight (check out this video – phenomenal)
‘We used to have all the celebrities and people there, and I think that at that moment in time that’s what people loved. It generated so much press and at a certain point it was like, did anybody actually watch the show? All I ever saw in the press was who was there. So we sort of stopped that and just got back to showing a fashion show, and if people want to come, great.’
Robert Duffy, President of Marc Jacobs on Style.com
“I had a Westwood crown hat I would wear to kindergarten when I was about five. Obviously it was the coolest thing.”
Margherita Missoni, The Independent on Sunday. Nope not jealous at all. (Grrr.)
“A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist. To some extent, this was how ambient music emerged. My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to, not because I wanted a job as a musician. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist. It’s like having a ready-made formula if you are able to read it. One of the innovations of ambient music was leaving out the idea that there should be melody or words or a beat… so in a way that was music designed by leaving things out – that can be a form of innovation, knowing what to leave out. All the signs were in the air all around with ambient music in the mid 1970s, and other people were doing a similar thing. I just gave it a name. Which is exactly what it needed. A name. A name. Giving something a name can be just the same as inventing it. By naming something you create a difference. You say that this is now real. Names are very important.”
Brian Eno, The Guardian
I’m always moaning that there’s nothing new any more – I wonder if this could work with fashion?
